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Ethical and Social Aspects of Starbucks Inc

...... In addition, Starbucks has taken a very active role in community enhancement. Starbucks has long been involved in literacy campaigns, and has donated both money and employee time to the success of such campaigns. Starbucks has also been involved in programs to stamp out poverty and for community enrichment. Though the idea of the coffee bar may seem firmly middle class, Starbucks has expanded into urban poor areas, with the idea that such expansion can provide cultural opportunities for members of those communities. Starbucks has worked with various charities to endorse good causes, such as the RED campaign to end global AIDS
However, the most pressing ethical issue facing any purveyor of coffee may be the growing conditions of the coffee. It would not be an exaggeration to compare many modern coffee plantations to the slave plantations of the old South. Though slavery itself may not longer be legal, the reality is that many workers are treated like chattel and are not aware that they have other options. Even those who do not work on big coffee plantations often work in conditions akin to those of Reconstruction-era sharecroppers, and find themselves more in debt at the end of the